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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: dutch508 on May 03, 2012, 02:14:24 PM
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From the article:
"For many, the thought of police officials ordering or condoning sexual assault—even if just through a nod or a wink—seems so shocking that absolute proof would be required. But is it really so out of character? As Naomi Wolf has recently reminded us, the US security apparatus has long “used sexual humiliation as a tool of control.â€"
"There’s a good deal of anecdotal evidence that would tend to confirm that this is exactly what they are trying to do. One of the most peculiar incidents took place on a recent march in New York where police seem to have simulated such an assault, arresting a young women who most activists later concluded was probably an undercover officer (no one had seen her before or has seen her since), then ostentatiously groping her as she was handcuffed. Reportedly, several male protestors had to physically restrained (by other protestors) from charging in to help her.'
No facts, just hearsay... From your wonderful Right Wing people at Naked Capitolism...
By David Graeber, a Reader in Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and an author and activist currently based in New York
A few weeks ago I was with a few companions from Occupy Wall Street in Union Square when an old friend — I’ll call her Eileen — passed through, her hand in a cast.
“What happened to you?†I asked.
“Oh, this?†she held it up. “I was in Liberty Park on the 17th [the Six Month Anniversary of the Occupation]. When the cops were pushing us out the park, one of them yanked at my breast.â€
“Again?†someone said.
We had all been hearing stories like this. In fact, there had been continual reports of police officers groping women during the nightly evictions from Union Square itself over the previous two weeks.
“Yeah so I screamed at the guy, I said, ‘you grabbed my boob! what are you, some kind of ****ing pervert?’ So they took me behind the lines and broke my wrists.â€
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From the comments on the NC webblog:
• Simon Bowel says:
May 3, 2012 at 1:26 pm
Well, incredulity aside, African Americans, the poor, or homeless people have stories to tell, but since many of them are either part of the prison industrial complex or otherwise exist off the media grid, the brutality is ignored. The raging drug war is a testament to the police state, the violence alone is taboo but gets good coverage from the smaller, lower power outlets. The Financial District Stormtroopers are trained to do damage, protesting isn’t tolerated any more – new laws in the past 12 months are aimed directly at dissent.
Luminous Animal (14,111 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002640747
NYPD using "sexual humiliation as a tool of control.â€
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David Graeber: New Police Strategy in New York – Sexual Assault Against Peaceful Protestors
this is gonna get ugly, real quick...
truebrit71 (15,409 posts)
1. I'm sure that is just a few bad apples....
**** the police.
Yup.
backscatter712 (15,057 posts)
2. The entire NYPD is bad.
With exactly one exception in this generation, and when he blew the whistle, they threw him in the psych ward.
I guess having a moral compass counts as mental illness in the NYPD...
Dawson Leery (5,728 posts)
3. There is not honor in the NYPD as well as several other police forces, worldwide.
hifiguy (6,725 posts)
5. And here in Minneapolis the cops are doping protesters
so they can bust them for eeevil drugs.
90% of cops everywhere are out-of-control assholes who belong behind bars themselves.
How exactly are the police doping protesters who are in favor of legalizing Pot?
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DUmmies, the tin hats are not working.
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Oh good grief! What a bunch of Bull Shit! These occupiers need to come meet some North Idaho Cops! They record everything, so it would be impossible for any of this crap they "say" happens could be documented!
FOAD DUmb****s! Bunch of lyin' mutha ****as! I think they ought to kick yer damned asses everyday until ya go home and get a job! Too bad yer parents didn't beat yer asses when ya pissed the bed every night! Ya might of learned somethin'!